GNU bug report logs - #20704
info.el bug fix; Interprets Info format wrongly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Teddy Hogeborn <teddy <at> recompile.se>

Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 17:53:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Merged with 13431

Found in version 24.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #24 received at 20704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Teddy Hogeborn <teddy <at> recompile.se>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20704: info.el bug fix; Interprets Info format wrongly
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:01:18 -0400

>> Using byte-to-position would make things worse for Latin-1 and the
>> likes.

> No, byte-to-position already checks for that:

> ---- src/marker.c, line 302
>   /* If this buffer has as many characters as bytes,
>      each character must be one byte.
>      This takes care of the case where enable-multibyte-characters is nil.  */
>   if (best_above == best_above_byte)
>     return bytepos;
> ----

> Therefore, an Info file in Latin-1 should work just fine.

No, because the representation in the buffer will still be a utf-8
derivative, so best_above will generally not be equal to best_above_byte.


        Stefan
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